Peter Fitzgerald

Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald (20 October 1960-) was a member of the US Senate from Illinois (R) from 3 January 1999 to 3 January 2005, succeeding Carol Moseley Braun and preceding Barack Obama.

Biography
Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald was born in Elgin, Illinois on 20 October 1960, and he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1982 and from the University of Michigan in 1986. In 1992, Fitzgerald was one of a number of conservatives to be elected to the State Senate of Illinois, serving as a Republican Party member. In 1998, he defeated Carol Moseley Braun during his campaign for the US Senate, and he marked himself as a staunch opponent of abortion, gay marriage, and taxes, but he supported environmentalism, gun control, immigration reform, and campaign finance reform. Fitzgerald retired from the Senate in 2005 and was succeeded by Barack Obama, and he founded Chain Bridge Bank in 2007.